The Reserve Bank of India girls’s squad that took the honours within the UTT-84th senior National and Inter-State desk tennis championships in Jammu on Thursday, March 23.
| Photo Credit: Ok. Keerthivasan
The victorious PSPB males’s squad within the UTT-84th senior National and Inter-State desk tennis championships in Jammu on March 23.
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Ok. Keerthivasan
Banking on Diya Chitale’s brilliance, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) scripted an exhilarating 3-2 win over Tamil Nadu within the girls’s ultimate of the UTT-84th senior National and Inter-State desk tennis championships right here on Thursday.
As anticipated, Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) males received a twenty sixth title with a 3-1 victory over Railways.
After successful the primary tie, Diya returned to win the essential fifth rubber in opposition to Kowshika to allow her group to bag the crown.
The TN girls had been on a excessive after the upset win over defending champion PSPB the opposite day. But even RBI wouldn’t have thought that TN would give such a troublesome battle particularly after dropping the primary two matches within the summit conflict.
Diya put it throughout TN’s S. Yashini in 5 video games whereas Ayhika Mukherjee edged previous Kowshika as RBI took a 2-0 lead.
But 17-year-old B. Kavyasree, taking part in with nice composure and even higher aggression, outwitted a struggling Sreeja Akula in 4 video games within the essential third rubber to maintain TN within the fray. Yashini, who had not misplaced a match earlier than the ultimate, returned to beat Ayhika to drive the competition to the decider.
The fifth match was a cliffhanger. Kowshika, along with her mixture of backhand blocks and forehand topspin, and Diya, in possession of a wonderful forehand topspin, put the sparse viewers on tenterhooks earlier than the latter emerged triumphant.
TN had final received the title in 1991-92 in Mumbai and completed runner-up in Jamshedpur in ‘94.
The outcomes (finals): Men: PSPB bt Railways 3-1 (Manav Thakkar bt Ronit Bhanja 11-5, 11-9, 11-8; G. Sathiyan bt Anirban Ghosh 11-5, 11-9, 11-4; Sanil Shetty misplaced to Akash Pal 2-11, 15-13, Sep 11, 12-10,8-11; Sathiyan bt Ronit 11-7, 11-5, 12-10).
Women: RBI bt TN 3-2 (Diya Chitale bt S. Yashini 11-4, 3-11, 11-5, 7-11, 11-7; Ayhika Mukherjee bt V. Kowshika 11-6, 20-18, 11-8; Sreeja Akula misplaced to B. Kavyasree 8-11, 11-8, 11-13, 8-11; Ayhika misplaced to Yashini 8-11, 11-4, 11-8, 7-11, 7-11; Diya bt Kowshika 13-11, Sep 11, 11-4, 11-6).
